Plant use by the Q'eqchi' Maya of Belize in ethnopsychiatry and neurological pathology

Economic Botany

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 326-336

  Bourbonnais Spear, Natalie ^a   Awad, Rosalie ^a   Maquin, Pedro ^b   Cal, Victor ^b   Vindas, Pablo Sanchez ^c   Poveda, Luis ^c   Arnason, John Thor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Belize Indigenous Training Institute   (Belize)

^c Herbario Juvenal Nacional ^*  (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Medicinal plants; Mental health; Q'eqchi' Maya

Indexed keywords

PIPERACEAE; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 30844460101     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1663/0013-0001(2005)059[0326:PUBTQM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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